Wadebridge

Wadebridge is a civil parish and city in north Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The city straddles the River Camel five miles upstream from Padstow. The everlasting population became 6,222 inside the census of 2001, growing to 7,900 inside the 2011 census. There are two electoral wards within the town. Their overall populace is 8,272. Originally called Wade, it turned into a risky fording point throughout the river till a bridge changed into constructed here in the 15th century, after which the name modified to its present shape.

The bridge became strategically vital for the duration of the English Civil War, and Oliver Cromwell went there to take it. Since then, it's been widened two times and refurbished in 1991. Wadebridge changed into served with the aid of a railway station among 1834 and 1967; part of the road now paperwork the Camel Trail, a recreational route for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. The metropolis was a street visitors bottleneck on the A39 road until it was bypassed in 1991, and the primary purchasing avenue, Molesworth Street, is now pedestrianised. The town has a secondary faculty in which numerous excellent sports-human beings were knowledgeable. The Royal Cornwall Show is a 3-day agricultural display held at the nearby Royal Cornwall Showground each June.